As far as I know, this is supposed to work with little or no problems for AMD64bit. (i.e. Suse 9.0 supports the 9600 series) Currently I have the following system running: Thunder K8W + 2x 244's + 4Gb of DDR400 + Twin SATA HDDs Booted of the patch disk and everything is ran smoothly first time... except the graphics driver which does not give 3D support. Now before I go and flash the BIOS or start running diagnostics, is there something I am missing? Thanks, Eugene de Villiers _________________________________________________________________ Entertainment venues, star gossip and more - find it with MSN Search! http://search.msn.co.za/
"Eugene de Villiers" <edevilliers@hotmail.com> writes:
As far as I know, this is supposed to work with little or no problems for AMD64bit. (i.e. Suse 9.0 supports the 9600 series)
Currently I have the following system running: Thunder K8W + 2x 244's + 4Gb of DDR400 + Twin SATA HDDs Booted of the patch disk and everything is ran smoothly first time... except the graphics driver which does not give 3D support.
The 9600 Radeon card is only supported with 2D. 3D support needs the closed source driver by ATI.
Now before I go and flash the BIOS or start running diagnostics, is there something I am missing?
A BIOS update will not give you 3D support, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj SuSE Linux AG, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Eugene: On Tuesday 27 January 2004 05:14, Eugene de Villiers wrote:
As far as I know, this is supposed to work with little or no problems for AMD64bit. (i.e. Suse 9.0 supports the 9600 series)
Currently I have the following system running: Thunder K8W + 2x 244's + 4Gb of DDR400 + Twin SATA HDDs Booted of the patch disk and everything is ran smoothly first time... except the graphics driver which does not give 3D support.
Now before I go and flash the BIOS or start running diagnostics, is there something I am missing?
I'm not sure how much of a problem this would be but.... You are running Opteron 244's, which I think do not support DDR400 speed memory. Now DDR400 is backward compatible to DDR333 so that in itself shouldn't be a problem, but I have observed (by snooping in the DRAM controller registers) that the Tyan 1.01 BIOS will program the DRAM controller for 400 Mhz regardless. I observed this with Opteron 240 on a Tyan s2885, BTW. Unfortunately, this BIOS doesn't allow you to specify DRAM timings. :-( My solution (after wasting some time trying to change the registers on an already booted system) was to upgrade to 246's, so I never really knew whether this would be a problem or not. Still, I think the BIOS should observe the limitations of the processor.
Thanks,
Eugene de Villiers
Good luck, - Darrell - -- sused@mucus.com "Perfect! ....what am I doing?" -- Washu -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAFnhneo6c0kw6mZ0RAo1kAJ9WP4XCfu8jBppMG0dMHHiiAw2CIgCeNhWT feoRAsoM8EA0/uQycWZjie4= =j0bs -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Hello, I had the same problem (with radeon 9600). As Andreas Jaeger mentioned 3D Support need a closed source driver by ATI. But at the Moment there is no driver for amd64 systems. NVidia has a amd64 driver for their chipsets. So my radeon 9600 sleeps in the box and I use now a GeForce FX5200. It works with 3D under suse 9 amd64. I hope this helps. have a look at: http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux.html http://www.ati.com/support/drivers/linux/radeon-linux.html?type=linux&prodType=graphic&prod=productsLINUXdriver&submit.x=10&submit.y=8&submit=GO%21 http://www.suse.de/de/private/download/xfree86/ detlef Eugene de Villiers wrote:
As far as I know, this is supposed to work with little or no problems for AMD64bit. (i.e. Suse 9.0 supports the 9600 series)
Currently I have the following system running: Thunder K8W + 2x 244's + 4Gb of DDR400 + Twin SATA HDDs Booted of the patch disk and everything is ran smoothly first time... except the graphics driver which does not give 3D support.
Now before I go and flash the BIOS or start running diagnostics, is there something I am missing?
Thanks,
Eugene de Villiers
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